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Re: Creating an "approved" branch

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-10 02:00:50 CET

On 3/9/07, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am new to SVN so please bear with me.
>
> I have been asked to create an "approved" branch for a project. What is
> wanted
> is a branch that starts out empty. Then, as individual modules are
> approved by
> QA they get copied into the approved branch. (To me, this doesn't seem to
> be
> the best way to use branches, but this is what they want.)
>
> I'm trying to figure out the best way to achieve this. Here is what I've
> come up
> with - please let me know if this makes any sense, and/or if there's a
> better
> way to do this.
>
> -create a branch (named approved) that is a copy of the trunk
> -remove everything from the approved branch
> -each time QA approves a module it is copied from the trunk into the
> approved
> branch

No comment on the actual requirement, but you should eliminate steps 1 and 2
in your plan and just use svn mkdir to create the approved branch. No point
in using copy.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on Sat Mar 10 02:01:13 2007

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